Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
View upstream from Hoover Dam, October 2021, during the Southwestern North American megadrought. The changes in water flow and use caused by Hoover Dam's construction and operation have had a large impact on the Colorado River Delta. [124] The construction of the dam has been implicated in causing the decline of this estuarine ecosystem. [124]
Today, conditions in the delta have changed. Like other desert river deltas, such as the Nile Delta and the Indus River Delta , the Colorado River delta has been greatly altered by human activity. Decades of dam construction and water diversions in the United States and Mexico have reduced the delta to a remnant system of small wetlands and ...
Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona. [1]They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to urban Southern California, and many other large projects.
Arizona was girding for war with California over the Colorado River. The year was 1934 and the place was the construction site of Parker Dam, downstream from the nearly completed Hoover Dam.
It was announced that because of Hoover's passion towards the project, the dam would be named after him. As construction began in 1931, so did the Great Depression. Workers flocked to Boulder City ...
A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, one of the nation's largest hydroelectric facilities, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished. No one was ...
In 1935, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO, later AASHTO) authorized a southward extension of U.S. Route 93 from its previous southern terminus in Glendale, Nevada to Kingman, Arizona via Las Vegas, Boulder City, and a crossing of the Colorado River on the newly-constructed Hoover Dam (then known as Boulder Dam).
Videos posted to Twitter and Facebook by visitors show a thick plume of black smoke rising from the base of the 726-foot-high landmark in Nevada.